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It's interesting/sad how we've gone from media that allowed for home recording, where it was both possible and legal, to what we have now. You can't even make

It's interesting/sad how we've gone from media that allowed for home recording, where it was both possible and legal, to what we have now. You can't even make a backup of the shows and movies you "buy", which just means "license", today.

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smsm42 1y ago
I mean, you can, but not allowed to, legally...
mastazi 1y ago
I've gone back to physical media. Vinyl, CDs, Blu Rays and DVDs. I just buy what I like. I don't need a huge library, that actually gives me "choice paralysis" and I end up not watching/listening to anything. I still use Internet based services, for example I might find a new band because someone on Instagram posted about them. Or maybe I listen to an album on streaming before deciding if I'm buying it. Oh and some live music venues have Youtube live streaming (e.g. Smalls jazz club). With movies, of course I might watch a movie trailer or a review on YouTube. Speaking of movies, the situation is different because unlike music, I can't actually find most of my favourites on streaming services. However more often than not, you can rent them online, so I might rent (but never buy!) a movie through Apple, YouTube etc., then if I like it and think I want to watch it again, I will buy a Blu-ray. But I kinda gave up on pure streaming services such as Netflix etc. since their catalogue is so shallow. This obviously doesn't work for everyone, if your way of listening to music is just "Hey Alexa play a smooth jazz playlist while I cook" then of course streaming is the right thing for you. Same if you just like to watch movies casually and you're not a film buff, in that case Netflix & co. are OK.
- cyberax 1y ago
  I'm buying BluRays and then just ripping them. This also is the only real way to get 3D videos. None of the streaming services support them.
  - robertlagrant 1y ago
    Where do you put the rips?
    - nekusar 1y ago
      Is a storage server that far fetched these days? Im seeing prices now around $10/TB for storage. Not fast, sure, but with 8 x 16TB disks, you get 128TB storage, and with RAID6 96TB. And thats only $1300 And if you architect the storage server right, you can use NFS on that and do all your exports to various docker containers and VMs. Proxmox makes setting this up pretty painless. And if you have money to burn and want screaming fast, go with some of the NVME drives and combined cards. Then you can do this near-solid state and also reduce your form factor a LOT. We're in the middle of basically every major "service company" enshittifying or already done so. Services are getting worse, costs are going up, and they're slow-boiling everyone to extract as much money from both customers and businesses. So, running this stuff yourself is the only way to retain your freedom and control.
      - robertlagrant 1y ago
        Sorry, I think there's been a misunderstanding. I'm just asking where the OP stores the rips.
        chucksta 1y ago
        That answer means a local NAS of some sort
    - cyberax 1y ago
      A local NAS, I have 40Tb of storage and I barely watch 10-20 movies a year. I also started transcoding them into 4k H.265 files.
- ChuckMcM 1y ago
  This. I had ripped a bunch of DVDs and had them on my NAS, sort of like NetFlix where the movies are all ones you like and they are never "leaving soon" :-).
dzhiurgis 1y ago
Looks like as we got a lot of more media it became more ephemeral - social media posts that impossible to find, snapchat/insta stories, disappearing slack history. Some of this is feature, not a bug. Personally I _never_ wanted to watch same movie twice, but I can understand some would. I guess most are still accessible in some archive somewhere for a small fee. I'd guess that fee is far less than you hoarding it for 4 decades.
- mastazi 1y ago
  I think it all depends on your taste, certain types of movies are less about things like plot twists and more about other elements of movie making that make them more enjoyable to re-watch multiple times.
  - dzhiurgis 1y ago
    I used to watch hollywood, but after meeting my partner she introduced me to foreign film which I consume now exclusively. I do keep a list to recommend others, but never considered rewatching.
- RiverCrochet 1y ago
  My older cousin's son used to copy every DVD he would rent from video stores (remember DVD Shrink?), and stopped when he realized the great majority of them, he did not ever watch again. The ones that he did rewatch tended to be ones he wanted to buy anyway.
afavour 1y ago
My biggest recent shock: ATSC3, the over the air broadcast standard that enables 4K broadcasts, allows for DRM. OTA broadcasts now locked down and can't be easily recorded. Shocking.

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smsm42 1y ago

I mean, you can, but not allowed to, legally...

mastazi 1y ago

I've gone back to physical media. Vinyl, CDs, Blu Rays and DVDs. I just buy what I like. I don't need a huge library, that actually gives me "choice paralysis" and I end up not watching/listening to anything. I still use Internet based services, for example I might find a new band because someone on Instagram posted about them. Or maybe I listen to an album on streaming before deciding if I'm buying it. Oh and some live music venues have Youtube live streaming (e.g. Smalls jazz club). With movies, of course I might watch a movie trailer or a review on YouTube. Speaking of movies, the situation is different because unlike music, I can't actually find most of my favourites on streaming services. However more often than not, you can rent them online, so I might rent (but never buy!) a movie through Apple, YouTube etc., then if I like it and think I want to watch it again, I will buy a Blu-ray. But I kinda gave up on pure streaming services such as Netflix etc. since their catalogue is so shallow. This obviously doesn't work for everyone, if your way of listening to music is just "Hey Alexa play a smooth jazz playlist while I cook" then of course streaming is the right thing for you. Same if you just like to watch movies casually and you're not a film buff, in that case Netflix & co. are OK.

cyberax 1y ago
I'm buying BluRays and then just ripping them. This also is the only real way to get 3D videos. None of the streaming services support them.
- robertlagrant 1y ago
  Where do you put the rips?
  - nekusar 1y ago
    Is a storage server that far fetched these days? Im seeing prices now around $10/TB for storage. Not fast, sure, but with 8 x 16TB disks, you get 128TB storage, and with RAID6 96TB. And thats only $1300 And if you architect the storage server right, you can use NFS on that and do all your exports to various docker containers and VMs. Proxmox makes setting this up pretty painless. And if you have money to burn and want screaming fast, go with some of the NVME drives and combined cards. Then you can do this near-solid state and also reduce your form factor a LOT. We're in the middle of basically every major "service company" enshittifying or already done so. Services are getting worse, costs are going up, and they're slow-boiling everyone to extract as much money from both customers and businesses. So, running this stuff yourself is the only way to retain your freedom and control.
    - robertlagrant 1y ago
      Sorry, I think there's been a misunderstanding. I'm just asking where the OP stores the rips.
      - chucksta 1y ago
        That answer means a local NAS of some sort
  - cyberax 1y ago
    A local NAS, I have 40Tb of storage and I barely watch 10-20 movies a year. I also started transcoding them into 4k H.265 files.
ChuckMcM 1y ago
This. I had ripped a bunch of DVDs and had them on my NAS, sort of like NetFlix where the movies are all ones you like and they are never "leaving soon" :-).

dzhiurgis 1y ago

Looks like as we got a lot of more media it became more ephemeral - social media posts that impossible to find, snapchat/insta stories, disappearing slack history. Some of this is feature, not a bug. Personally I _never_ wanted to watch same movie twice, but I can understand some would. I guess most are still accessible in some archive somewhere for a small fee. I'd guess that fee is far less than you hoarding it for 4 decades.

mastazi 1y ago
I think it all depends on your taste, certain types of movies are less about things like plot twists and more about other elements of movie making that make them more enjoyable to re-watch multiple times.
- dzhiurgis 1y ago
  I used to watch hollywood, but after meeting my partner she introduced me to foreign film which I consume now exclusively. I do keep a list to recommend others, but never considered rewatching.
RiverCrochet 1y ago
My older cousin's son used to copy every DVD he would rent from video stores (remember DVD Shrink?), and stopped when he realized the great majority of them, he did not ever watch again. The ones that he did rewatch tended to be ones he wanted to buy anyway.

afavour 1y ago

My biggest recent shock: ATSC3, the over the air broadcast standard that enables 4K broadcasts, allows for DRM. OTA broadcasts now locked down and can't be easily recorded. Shocking.